The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Volume 2: Purgatorio

by Durling, Robert M.; Durling, Robert M.; Martinez, Ronald L.

• ISBN13: 9780195087451
• ISBN10: 0195087453
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in theregaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness toDante's syntax. Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno.Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four usefulindexes. Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem.

Author Biography

Robert M. Durling is Professor Emeritus of English and Italian Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ronald L. Martinez is Professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota. Their works together include Dante's Inferno and Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's "Rime petrose."
Robert Turner has been a professional illustrator for more than 20 years. He works at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations,	xv
Introduction,	3	(15)
PURGATORIO
CANTO 1,	18	(16)
Notes to Canto 1,	26	(8)
CANTO 2,	34	(14)
Notes to Canto 2,	42	(6)
CANTO 3,	48	(16)
Notes to Canto 3,	56	(8)
CANTO 4,	64	(14)
Notes to Canto 4,	72	(6)
CANTO 5,	78	(14)
Notes to Canto 5,	86	(6)
CANTO 6,	92	(18)
Notes to Canto 6,	102	(8)
CANTO 7,	110	(16)
Notes to Canto 7,	118	(8)
CANTO 8,	126	(16)
Notes to Canto 8,	134	(8)
CANTO 9,	142	(16)
Notes to Canto 9,	150	(8)
CANTO 10,	158	(14)
Notes to Canto 10,	166	(6)
CANTO 11,	172	(16)
Notes to Canto 11,	180	(8)
CANTO 12,	188	(16)
Notes to Canto 12,	196	(8)
CANTO 13,	204	(18)
Notes to Canto 13,	214	(8)
CANTO 14,	222	(20)
Notes to Canto 14,	232	(10)
CANTO 15,	242	(16)
Notes to Canto 15,	250	(8)
CANTO 16,	258	(18)
Notes to Canto 16,	266	(10)
CANTO 17,	276	(16)
Notes to Canto 17,	284	(8)
CANTO 18,	292	(16)
Notes to Canto 18,	300	(8)
CANTO 19,	308	(18)
Notes to Canto 19,	316	(10)
CANTO 20,	326	(20)
Notes to Canto 20,	336	(10)
CANTO 21,	346	(16)
Notes to Canto 21,	354	(8)
CANTO 22,	362	(20)
Notes to Canto 22,	372	(10)
CANTO 23,	382	(18)
Notes to Canto 23,	390	(10)
CANTO 24,	400	(20)
Notes to Canto 24,	410	(10)
CANTO 25,	420	(18)
Notes to Canto 25,	428	(10)
CANTO 26,	438	(18)
Notes to Canto 26,	446	(10)
CANTO 27,	456	(18)
Notes to Canto 27,	464	(10)
CANTO 28,	474	(18)
Notes to Canto 28,	482	(10)
CANTO 29,	492	(18)
Notes to Canto 29,	502	(8)
CANTO 30,	510	(20)
Notes to Canto 30,	518	(12)
CANTO 31,	530	(18)
Notes to Canto 31,	538	(10)
CANTO 32,	548	(18)
Notes to Canto 32,	558	(8)
CANTO 33,	566	(25)
Notes to Canto 33,	574	(10)
VERGIL, ECLOGUE IV,	584	(4)
GUIDO CAVALCANTI'S "PASTORELLA,"	588	(3)
ADDITIONAL NOTES
1. Cato of Utica (Canto 1),	591	(2)
2. The Meeting with Casella (Canto 2),	593	(1)
3. Belacqua and the Horizons of Purgatory,	594	(3)
4. Vergil's Palinurus in Purgatorio and the Rudderless Ship of State (Canto 6),	597	(3)
5. The Canonical Hours; Compline (Canto 8),	600	(3)
6. The Terrace of Pride: i. Structure and Rationale (Cantos 10-12),	603	(3)
7. The Terrace of Pride: ii. The Theme of Art (Cantos 10-12),	606	(2)
8. San Miniato a1 Monte and Dante's Pride of Workmanship (Canto 12),	608	(2)
9. Number, Light, Motion, and Degree at the Center of the Comedy,	610	(2)
10. Dante and Forese (Cantos 23-24),	612	(2)
11. Embryology and Heredity (Canto 25),	614	(3)
12. The Virtues of the Virgin Mary (After Canto 27),	617	(1)
13. Dante and Ovid's Pyramus (Canto 27),	618	(2)
14. Virgil and the Fourth Eclogue (Canto 30),	620	(3)
15. Rolling Out the Apocalypse (Cantos 29-33),	623